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10 JAHRE VERMEHRT SCHÖNES!
RE:FRAME

67 min 
Online: Thu. 9.3., 20:00 / online available for 48 hours
Cinema: Sun. 12.3., 16:30 + Q&A / Historischer Saal, METRO Kino
Q&A with Shi Rou Huang, Sofia El Khyari and Jane Cheadle , moderated by Lisa Heuschober

RE:FRAME is a search for lost tales, a revision of distant memories and an encounter with challenging dreams. On their journeys, the protagonists enter places of desire and beauty as well as fear and pain. They get the chance to embrace the surreal, abstract, and imaginary – an opportunity to (re-)write histories, to claim space, to confront narratives and create moments of emancipatory appropriation, care, and healing.

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3 WETLANDS

Jane Cheadle, 2021, GB and ZA, 11 minutes

Successive lockdowns in East London. Lights and shadows are moving across the floor while a water mass is growing. A video triptych DIY stopframe animation transforms into a material meditation that uses water, cardboard, and home-made slime – imagining wide open spaces, marshland, and mires.

O HOMEM DO LIXO / THE GARBAGE MAN

Laura Gonçalves, 2022, PT, 12 minutes
This film is only available in Austria

On a hot August afternoon, a family gathers at the table to remember the life of uncle Botão, which was shaped by dictatorship, Portugal’s colonial war in Angola, emigration, and working as a garbage man. The individual story unfolds and ultimately tells the history of a nation whose collective memories are so often overlooked.

L’OMBRE DES PAPILLONS / SHADOW OF THE BUTTERFLIES

Sofia El Khyari , 2022, FR, PT, and QA, 9 minutes

On a hot August afternoon, a family gathers at the table to remember the life of uncle Botão, which was shaped by dictatorship, Portugal’s colonial war in Angola, emigration, and working as a garbage man. The individual story unfolds and ultimately tells the history of a nation whose collective memories are so often overlooked.

水中的女孩 / GIRL IN THE WATER

Shi Rou Huang, 2021, TW, 7 minutes

As a woman is fixing a broken wall, the wall turns into an analogy of her emotional life, reminding her of the highs and lows of past loves. The healing of her broken heart provides a poetic insight into female internal time-consciousness. (Winner Up & Coming Award 2022)



FOR TASHI

Rebecca Ruige Xu, 2020, US, 8 minutes

Illustrating the physical and emotional journey a woman goes through after suffering a miscarriage, this film explores the deeply personal, largely unspoken gap that remains. Images expand and evolve in constant movement. Visuals and sounds merge in an attempt to find a language for this loss and the pain connected to it.


HOLES

Birgitta Hosea, 2021, GB, 6 minutes

Originally created to be viewed through a peephole, this short abstract film hints at an imaginary journey that is traced by oil pastels, white spirit, milk, ink, detergent, lipstick, and pomegranates. In the context of pandemic isolation, it becomes a story about the desire for intimacy, closeness, touch, and sensuality.

LUKREZIA

Karø Goldt, 2009, DE, 4 minutes

According to legend, Roman noblewoman Lucretia committed suicide to restore her honour after being raped. For centuries, this story has served as a pretext for male painters to fabricate erotic and pornographic images. Goldt revisits this female symbol and adds her own perspective that challenges the historical mimesis of women.

舌 / TONGUE

Kaho Yoshida, 2022, CA and JP, 2 minutes

Tired of being mansplained, a woman decides to find her own way of stopping the neverending babble of the men she meets. Leaving her date with a little trophy, she embarks on a delightful trip with this unusual new friend. In the comfort of her home, she lets herself go on a dreamlike journey of sensuality and independence.

YOUR MOUNTAIN IS WAITING

Hannah Jacobs, 2021, GB, 8 minutes

Martha feels trapped in the routines and boundaries of daily life. When a strange encounter forces her to shift perspectives, she embraces the seemingly irrational as she embarks on a surreal journey of discovery. Urban claustrophobia disappears as she learns to trust her instincts again.